People
The visionaries and engineers who created foundational technologies.
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Ada Lovelace
First Computer Programmer
ComputingMathematicsAlgorithms
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Alan Turing
Father of Computer Science
ComputingMathematicsCryptography
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Charles Babbage
Father of the Computer
ComputingMathematicsMechanical Engineering
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Claude Shannon
Father of Information Theory
ComputingMathematicsInformation Theory
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Dennis Ritchie
Creator of C and Co-creator of Unix
ComputingProgramming LanguagesOperating Systems
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Donald Knuth
Father of Algorithm Analysis
ComputingAlgorithmsMathematics
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Grace Hopper
Mother of COBOL and Pioneer of Compilers
Programming LanguagesCompilersComputing
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John von Neumann
Father of Modern Computing Architecture
ComputingMathematicsComputer Architecture
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Ken Thompson
Co-creator of Unix, Go, and UTF-8
ComputingOperating SystemsProgramming Languages
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Linus Torvalds
Creator of Linux and Git
Operating SystemsVersion ControlOpen Source
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Margaret Hamilton
Pioneer of Software Engineering
ComputingSoftware EngineeringAerospace
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Tim Berners-Lee
Inventor of the World Wide Web
ComputingNetworkingInformation Systems